as it is by our colder climate, I estimate it as adding, at least, one 

 thousand bushels of wheat annually to my crop." 

 I can add nothing to what is said above. 



I am, Colonel, very respectfully, yours, etc. 



H. M. POLK. 

 Bolivar, Hardeman county, Tennessee. 



CHINESE SUGAR CORN ( Sorghum nigrum.) 



In 1854 some insignificant pack- 

 ages of seeds were sent from the 

 then patent office, bearing this in- 

 scription : 



"SUGAR MILLET. 



(Sorgho Sucre.) 



(Good for fodder, greeu or dry, and for 

 making sugar.") 



Who could have foreseen, from 

 these few characters, that a plant 

 1 was then being added to this coun- 

 try more important than any since 

 the discovery of America and the 

 discovery to Europeans, of Indian 

 corn? 



In the midst of the great success 

 of the New World in agricultural 

 products, the Old World sent this 

 boon to her offspring as a token of 

 good will. 



Within a year or two sugar has 

 been made from it of good quality, and during a recent visit to the 

 Agricultural Department at Washington, I saw specimens of sugar 

 manufactured from a new variety as excellent in flavor and color 

 as the best New Orleans sugar. I distributed some of the seeds of 

 this new variety, and I confidently predict that Tennessee will, in 

 ten years, make sugar enough for her own consumption at a cost 

 less than five cents per pound. 



